Motorcycle Training

In NSW, to get your motorcycle licence you first have to attend a course that consists of two half days. They provide everything you need on the day; Gloves, helmets and motorbikes. You must do this course and then pass a written test before they will give you a learners licence. 
The course itself is reasonably easy if you have a little understanding of how to ride a push bike. It would probably be a little more difficult if you'd never driven a manual car so didn't have an understanding of how a clutch worked. They do go through all of that and I think on the day that I did the course everyone had some understanding on how to drive and we were all just learning about how to do it on a motorbike.
Once you have passed the course and passed the written test you're given a learners licence. In NSW this means that you can ride up 90km/h and you can ride by yourself. In QLD you are meant to ride with an experienced rider following behind you. Your learners licence is valid for 12 months, you can renew it by doing the course and written test again but if you're going to be paying for all of that again you may as well try and move on to the next level if you can.
You must hold your learners licence for at least three months before you can attempt to pass the test to get a provisional licence. To get a provisional licence you have to attend another course, this one is a full day course with a riding test at the end. If you pass the riding test then you can get your provisional licence (P1). You progress from a P1 to a P2 after 12 months but there is no more tests or training required.
Since I got my P1 licence a few years ago and have never done any more training I was thinking that it could be a good idea to try and get some more advanced training. There are a range of courses available for road riding, adventure riding and off road riding. I think that getting some more experience in adventure riding would be beneficial to me as the Learner and Provisional courses only focus on road skills and even then they are really just to get you riding. As I want to head out to more adventurous areas motocamping having a bit more knowledge could be really handy. The only thing that I'm not so sure on is my current tyres. My rear tyre in particular is only really suited to on road riding and little bit of well maintained dirt road.
I'm going to set that as another goal for me to achieve in the next 12 months. Attend some form of adventure motorcycle training.

Bomber
still setting goals